Animal Rights
The actress has had an active involvement in animal rights, working with the organisation Save Animals From Exploitation in anti-cruelty campaigns, including having posters put in her room in In My Fathers Den; she is a vegan, although she insists on pronouncing the word with a soft 'v' (see 'wegan'). Emily's love of animals was made famous in the autobiographical documentary "Birds of a Feather", in which she attempted to have a chicken's beak surgically attached to her face.
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“When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnare for our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.”
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